Bill Nye: How to Talk to an Alien
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~~~~~~~~~~~ http://bigthink.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~ What would you say to an alien? Big Think turned to Bill Nye, aka, 'The Science Guy,' who heads The Planetary Society, an organization that fosters ways for the public to be actively involved in space exploration, including the search for extraterrestrial life. Editor's note: Nye's latest effort... Read more
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- -: Bill Nye: How to Talk to an Alien
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)~~~~~~~~~~~ http://bigthink.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~ What would you say to an alien? Big Think turned to Bill Nye, aka, 'The Science Guy,' who heads The Planetary Society, an organization that fosters ways for the public to be actively involved in space exploration, including the search for extraterr...
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- -: TEDxSantaCruz: Joe Jordan - The Solar Window Of Opportunity
August 31, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Joe Jordan worked at NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute for more than 20 years, serving on various projects, including flying observatories for infrared astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope design, studies of stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change, the search for plane...
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- -: Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe
April 4, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Professor Stephen Hawking asks some big questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? -- and discusses how we might go about answering them. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Confer...
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- -: Peter Ward: Earth's mass extinctions
January 28, 2009 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine. TEDTalks is a daily video ...
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- -: Jill Tarter: Why the search for alien intelligence matters
February 20, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the universe. TEDTalks is a daily video podca...
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- -: Strategies in the Search for ET
June 12, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk June 11, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Seth Shostak, SETI Institute. The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now into its fifth decade, and we still haven't uncovered a confirmed peep from the cosmos. For that matter, we still dont know if life at any level of ...
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- -: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
June 8, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://bit.ly/jISsvK - Jill Tarter on her search for life on other planets.
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- -: The Drake Equation and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
July 16, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/03/The_Search_for_Extra-Terrestrial_Life Astronomer Ian Morison explains how scientists assess the likelihood of discovering extraterrestrial life, using a formula called the Drake Equation. ----- Professor Ian Morison describes our attempts to detect ...
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- -: Sending Google Into Space to Search for Alien Life
April 29, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/31/Seth_Shostak_Confessions_of_an_Alien_Hunter Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, recalls his idea to broadcast Google's servers into outer space as a means of making contact with extraterrestrials. "If you have a lot of material, it ...
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- -: SETI@home: Discover ET Using Your Home Computer
June 17, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/Dan_Werthimer_Presents_SETIhome Dan Werthimer describes the role of the SETI@home project in the search for extraterrestrials. He explains how data from the world's largest telescope is being analyzed by millions of networked computers around the worl...
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